r e d.chilipepper

weather

california is ridiculous. where else do you get 55 degree, cloud-free skies in the dead of winter? one word: california. i love it here.

my telephone discussion with mater wu veered towards where i am going to apply for my phd. she wants me to go to harvard. it's close to home, it's where brother wu will be studying, and if all goes as it has, my scores and grades are more than well above the average of past acceptees.

last but not least, there is the the sacrosanct infallibility of the institution that many asians have come to admire and experience. there is something almost ecclesiastical about that institution, as it has come to represent the academic stronghold of this nation. people hold it in an almost holy regard.

i pondered. and then it struck me.

i don't want to go there.

i don't really give a monkey's fig anymore about the name of the institution i attend. and i don't care if it makes me seem badass. i want to be someplace where i'll be happy, where there'll be beaches to meander upon, woods to walk within, and a climate that suits my disposition. and it's not going to be in cambridge, mass purely for the name. i think i want to stay around here. the grind of the east coast, the frigidity of the people, the rush will all annihilate me. if i go back there, after being here, it'll kill me. especially for a 6 year phd. nah.. i'm gonna stay round here. afterall, i'm a californian now.